History GK Questions and Answers Quiz
Q. Government of India calendars show dates both in Christian era (AD) and Saka era. In which year did the Saka era start?
1) 150 BC
2) 130 BC
3) 56 BC
4) AD BC
Q. Which of the following did not form part of the Agrarian Programme outlined in the famous Faizpur Session of Congress in 1936?
1) Taxation on Agriculture Income and Cooperative Farming
2) Recognition of Peasant Unions (Kisan Sabhas)
3) 50 percent Reduction in Rent and Revenue
4) Abolition of Zamindari and Taluqdari System
Q. Who among the following did not attend the Second Round Table Conference of 1931?
1) Yusuf Mehrauli
2) S. K. Dutta
3) Ali Imam
4) G. D. Birla
Q. During the Anti-Partition popular movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905, boycott of British goods served as an effective weapon. From which of the following nationalist leaders did the boycott suggestion first come?
1) Krishna Kumar Mitra
2) Rabindranath Tagore
3) Ramendra Sunder Tridevi
4) Prafulla Chandra Roy
Q. Which of the following objects were presented by Thomas Roe to Jahangir when he visited the latter's court?
1.A coach drawn by four horses
2.A watch
3.An English gun
4.Perfume
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
1) 1 and 2
2) 3 and 4
3) 2 and 3
4) 1,2 and 4
Q. Which of the following statements best explains 'Interlopers'?
1) It was a term used in the East India Company barracks to describe the Englishmen who kept mistresses.
2) The dismissed employees of the East India Company.
3) The Free Merchants, who traded independently in Asia despite the monopoly of the East India Company
4) The middlemen engaged by the East India Company to negotiate with the merchants and traders in India
Q. Apart from Sir Stafford Cripps who was the President of the Board of Trade, who among the following was/were part of the Cabinet Mission that visited India in 1946?
1.Lord Pethic Lawrence
2.A. V. Alexander
3.C. H. Philips
4.Allan Campbell-Johnson
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
1) 1 and 2
2) 2 and 3
3) 3 and 4
4) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Q. "Indica" was a famous book written by -
1) Megasthenes
2) Amir Khusro
3) Ibn Batuta
4) Fa-Hien
Q. Who was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo?
1) Hitler
2) Napoleon
3) Mussolini
4) Bismarck
Q. Who was the First President of the United States of America?
1) George Washington
2) Abraham Lincoln
3) J. F. Kennedy
4) Roosevelt
